Herve A. Didier
Macungie, PA 18062
Tel: 919-593-6930
www.linkedin.com/in/herveadou/
QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
Over 8 Years’ experience in network planning and design in the wireless industry. Able to maintain a high degree of proficiency for performance with technologies such as CMS, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, WCDMA/UMTS, LMDS/MMDS, AND ATM.
Two years management experience as the RF team lead for various projects.
HARDWARE: Nokia 2G & 3G Base station; Nortel BTS s 4000, 8000, and 12000, zNokia DX200BSC; Nokia Switch; Nokia NMS/X, TOM Drive test equipment; Ericson TEMS;
Grayson (GSM); Nortel (Reunion) Base station and switching infrastructure (LMDS,and MMDS); Agilent E74xx series (CDMA); HP 8275 Network Analyser; HP Viper ; Garmin 12-channel GPS; Antennas:Allgon , Dapa, Decibel, Hughes.
SOFTWARE: Win 98 – 2000, and XP; WIN-NT 3.5; 4.0; MS OFFICE (INCLUDING VISUAL BASIC & MACROS);
MapInfo 7.0; TEMP:Investigation 6.0, Skypad, DeskCat, TOM/SAM, OptPCS, Actix, Agilent E74xx series, NMS/X, Cormaco for drive test and post-processing (GSM/GPRS and CDMA);
Planning tools: TOTEM, Planet, Odyssey, Metrica, Five-Nines, Path-Calc, Arc-View, win-plan, db Planner, LCC Cellumate; UNIX, Oracle, Visio 2000
• Experience working with RAN technologies: LTE, UMTS & WiMax.
• Worked on AT&T 3G UMTS & LTE Pre Launch Performance Evaluation & Optimization.
• Complete understanding of call flow, protocol stack & layer 3 messaging for 3G & 4G Technologies.
• Understanding of RF Design, RF propagation & coverage analysis.
• Knowledge of OFDM, MIMO, LBA [Link Budget Analysis], & H-ARQ
• Strong understanding of CDMA/EVDO technology.
• Nortel/Ericsson BTS (DCG/eDCG/MFRM) project.
PROFESSIONALS EXPERIENCES
November 2011 to Present: Intel Corporation, Allentown, PA.
System Verification Engineer.(RF DEVICE TEST ENGINEER)
System verification of platforms and modem devices testing for future market releases. Work with various groups to align and debug hardware/software/network issues.
KPI (Key Performance Indicator), ADAPT and Regression Testing. Travel internationally to support customers (South America countries).
- Work closely with engineering to isolate and debug issues within the XMM platform base.
- A Technical protocol stack expert. Helped develop back office analysis of issues found during testing.
- Travel frequently both internationally and nationwide to test mobile networks and modems devices to report issues at those locations.
-Focus on CDMA, WCDMA and LTE technologies.
February 2011 to October 2011: Verizon Wireless Prelaunch Optimization 4G LTE Wisconsin, Chicago and Boston area.(RF OPTIMIZATION FIELD TEST ENGINEER)
Experience working with RAN technologies: LTE, UMTS ,Mapinfo , WiMax , CDMA and WCDMA.
Worked on Verizon 3G UMTS & LTE Pre Launch Performance Evaluation & Optimization.
Complete understanding of call flow, protocol stack & layer 3 messaging for 3G & 4G Technologies.
Understanding of RF Design, RF propagation & coverage analysis.
Knowledge of OFDM, MIMO, LBA [Link Budget Analysis], & H-ARQ
Worked on Turnkey optimization Projects .
Analyzing UMTS & HSPA networks using Actix Analyzer Classic and Spotlight.
Validating the test data collected by analyzing the Access failures and Drops (Technology and Application) using Layer 3 messaging.
Optimizing RF conditions by checking missing neighbor relations, swapped sectors, Pilot Pollution analysis, Coverage Analysis and recommending Antenna tilts.
Monitoring Alarms, Recommending handover threshold parameters, IRAT/IFHO Failure troubleshooting.
Creating optimized Neighbor list, Engineering Work Orders, Assigning Cell Classification & Neighbor relation priority.
Recommended antenna tilt changes to optimize the coverage & overcome interference.
Monitor sites during pre-migration soak period for alarms. Perform pre migration and shakedown.
October 2010 to February 2011: CLEARWIRE RF Engineer, SAN FRANCISCO Market (RF DRIVE TEST AND OPTIMIZATION ENGINEER)
Performed Acceptance Test Protocol (ATP) to integrate newly built BTS into Networking. It involved measuring site KPIs and testing softer handovers using Witt tool.
Collected scanner data to map the coverage of the cluster.
Used various call scenarios (FTP, HTTP sessions and Ping tests) to record various network KPIs using XCAL-X.
Identified various issues like TDD interference, fault optical fibers, faulty TMA and frequency planning glitches.
Used Windcatcher to process the drive test data and analyzed events like handover failure & drop call, linking them to bad coverage, terrain issues, interference, and network glitches.
Used Xstream (Clearw're Tool) to compare cluster KPI's with Market Benchmark
April 2010 to September 2010: CLEARWIRE RF Engineer, NASHVILLE TN Market
Checking upload and download speed throughput test
Worked on WITT 9.1 and XCAL to evaluate coverage and Cluster drive
Used Witt Map Generator to create site and DAPSAT to connect to site
In order to check the main and diversity branch RSSI.
Recommended antenna tilt changes to optimize the coverage & overcome interference.
Creating optimized Neighbor list, Engineering Work Orders, Assigning Cell Classification & Neighbor relation priority
October 2009 to Mars 2010: CLEARWIRE RF Engineer RALEIGH NC, Market
Performed Acceptance Test Protocol (ATP) to integrate newly built BTS into Networking. It involved measuring site KPIs and testing softer handovers using Witt tool.
Collected scanner data to map the coverage of the cluster.
Used various call scenarios (FTP, HTTP sessions and Ping tests) to record various network KPIs using XCAL-X.
Identified various issues like TDD interference, fault optical fibers, faulty TMA and frequency planning glitches.
Used Windcatcher to process the drive test data and analyzed events like handover failure & drop call, linking them to bad coverage, terrain issues, interference, and network glitches.
Used Xstream (Clearw're Tool) to compare cluster KPI's with Market Benchmark.
Checking upload and download speed throughput test
Worked on WITT 9.1 Mapinfos and XCAL to evaluate coverage and Cluster drive.
January 2009 to June 2009: LUCENT-ALCATEL RF DRIVE TESTER CW Toronto CA.
Mars 2007 to December 2009: NIELSEN MOBILE, Field operation Technician (Canada) and USA
drives test, Monitor, troubleshoots and manage daily operations.
August 2006 to January 2007: AVION SYSTEMS RF Engineer, Roswell, GA
EVDO & CDMA project for Motorola. The project is for the Alltel network across the southwest and the south. My duties include SCFT, Cluster Driving and data processing. I am using Invex3G for my collection tool. I also used a Kyrocera air card as my antenna for data. Also I’...
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